Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
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Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.
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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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In war, one cannot say what one feels.
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.
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God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
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The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
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It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
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First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
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Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.